ÉLISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842) Portrait of a boy...

ÉLISABETH-LOUISE VIGÉE LE BRUN (PARIS 1755-1842)
Portrait of a boy, bust-length
signed and dated ‘1801/ L.E. Vigée Le Brun à Dresde’ (lower center, on the trompe-l’œil frame)
pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard
13 x 9 ½ in. (33 x 24.3 cm)

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Weinmüller, Munich, 14-15 March 1962, lot 818.
with Newhouse Gallery, New York.
Helis family, New Orleans, by 1960; by descent to
William G. Helis, Jr. (1918-1988), New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 147.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 June 2005, lot 4.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 29 January 2009, lot 63.